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DVDs and downloads: Fury, Serena, Effie Gray, Blackwood, Life Itself, Virunga and morehttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/22/guy-lodge-dvds-fury-serena-effie-gray-life-itself-virunga
With David Ayer’s Fury and a documentary profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the best of this week’s DVDs could have been Oscar contenders<p>After too many months of campaigning, speculation and red-carpet dry runs masquerading as other award ceremonies, the Academy Awards will finally be dished out tonight – yet this week’s DVD release slate looks more like a boulevard of broken Oscar dreams. There was a time, for example, when David Ayer’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGvZoIrXpg" title=""><strong>Fury</strong></a><strong> </strong>(Sony, 15) was seen to have <a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/fury-enters-new-battle-zone-the-oscar-race-1201330827/" title="">gold-plated potential</a>: a brawny, stern-faced second world war drama starring Brad Pitt, it ticked a lot of highly serious boxes, only to wind up with even fewer nominations (zero, to be exact) than <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/12/jon-voight-angelina-jolie-deserved-best-director-oscar-nomination" title="">that brawny, stern-faced second world war drama by Pitt’s missus</a>. Behind its stolid exterior and notionally nihilistic violence, however, there’s an old-fashioned brothers-in-arms sensitivity to this tale of an American tank crew in Germany, grinding its way through the war’s last gasp. Ayer, a name most identified with urban thrillers like <em>Training Day</em> and <em>End of Watch</em>, brings a certain blood-on-the-lens integrity to proceedings; if only the actors, with the exception of the porous, vulnerable Logan Lerman, would unclench their capable jaws from time to time.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/22/guy-lodge-dvds-fury-serena-effie-gray-life-itself-virunga">Continue reading...</a>DVD and video reviewsDramaDocumentaryHorrorBrad PittDakota FanningEmma ThompsonRoger EbertLeos CaraxFilmCultureSun, 22 Feb 2015 08:00:14 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/22/guy-lodge-dvds-fury-serena-effie-gray-life-itself-virungaPhotograph: Giles Keyte/APBrad Pitt in Fury: 'David Ayer brings a certain blood-on-the-lens integrity to proceedings.' Photograph: Giles Keyte/APPhotograph: Giles Keyte/APBrad Pitt in Fury: 'David Ayer brings a certain blood-on-the-lens integrity to proceedings.' Photograph: Giles Keyte/APGuy Lodge2015-02-22T08:00:14ZEwan McGregor to make directorial debut with American Pastoralhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/19/ewan-mcgregor-directorial-debut-american-pastoral
<p>The Scottish actor will also take a lead role in the Philip Roth adaptation, alongside Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning<br></p><p>Following an illustrious 20-year career in front of the camera, Ewan McGregor is now heading behind it. For his directorial debut he’ll take on the upcoming film adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral, which he is already set to star in alongside Jennifer Connelly and the newly-added Dakota Fanning.</p><p>“I’ve wanted to direct for years and wanted to wait until I found a story that I ‘had’ to tell, and in this script I knew I had found that story,” McGregor <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ewan-mcgregor-make-directorial-debut-774865">said in a statement</a>. “I’m looking forward to the challenge of being on both sides of the camera, especially knowing I’ll be working with Jennifer and Dakota.” Shooting from an adapted screenplay by The Lincoln Lawyer scribe John Romano, production will begin in September. </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/27/sundance-2015-review-last-days-in-the-desert-ewan-mcgregor">Sundance 2015 review –&nbsp;Last Days in the Desert: Ewan McGregor plays Jesus and Satan in beautiful battle</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/19/ewan-mcgregor-directorial-debut-american-pastoral">Continue reading...</a>Ewan McGregorFilmDakota FanningPhilip RothBooksCultureThu, 19 Feb 2015 13:07:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/19/ewan-mcgregor-directorial-debut-american-pastoralPhotograph: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesEwan McGregor at the 2015 Sundance film festival.Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesEwan McGregor at the 2015 Sundance film festival.Ben Beaumont-Thomas2015-02-19T13:07:12ZEffie Gray review – a handsome but inert portraithttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/12/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanning-emma-thompson
<p>Emma Thompson’s intelligent dramatisation of a famous Victorian love triangle lacks sparkle</p><p>• <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/13/emma-thompson-different-patch-life-50s">Emma Thompson: ‘It’s a different patch of life, your 50s’</a></p><p>The story of Victorian art critic John Ruskin’s appalled reaction to the sight of his wife’s naked body (he knew of the female form only through hairless paintings and sculptures) has become emblematic of a wider cultural objectification of women which remains strikingly contemporary. This Emma Thompson-scripted account of Effie Gray’s ill-fated marriage (the release of which has been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/21/emma-thompson-effie-cleared-for-release" title="">delayed by groundless plagiarism suits</a>) intelligently dramatises the prison-like nature of Effie’s status while struggling to engage us in what is essentially a non-relationship; it may be billed as a “love triangle”, but there’s precious little love on display, even in our heroine’s growing affection for pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Instead, we have a handsome but rather inert portrait of a suffocating social milieu in which it is left to Thompson herself to inject vibrant relief as the independently minded Lady Eastlake. Meanwhile Julie Walters is typically imposing as Ruskin’s poisonous mother, against whom Dakota Fanning’s downtrodden daughter-in-law struggles to hold her own.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/12/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanning-emma-thompson">Continue reading...</a>Effie GrayFilmDramaDakota FanningEmma ThompsonJulie WaltersRussell ToveyCultureSat, 11 Oct 2014 23:05:19 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/12/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanning-emma-thompsonPhotograph: or/AP/Press Association ImagesWhere is the love? Dakota Fanning in Effie Gray. Photograph: or/AP/Press Association ImagesPhotograph: or/AP/Press Association ImagesWhere is the love? Dakota Fanning in Effie Gray. Photograph: or/AP/Press Association ImagesMark Kermode, Observer film critic2014-10-11T23:05:19ZEffie Gray review – Dakota Fanning leads gusto performanceshttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanning
Emma Thompson has penned an entertaining take&nbsp;on the doomed Victorian marriage of John Ruskin to Effie Gray<br /><br />• <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-emma-thompson-john-ruskin-watch-movie" title="">Why Effie Gray is the one film you should watch this week</a><p>One of John Ruskin’s many achievements was single-handedly creating a modern academic industry with the ambiguous way he described his unconsummated marriage to his young Scottish bride Euphemia “Effie”&nbsp;Gray. In the course of legal correspondence connected to their divorce, the great Victorian critic claimed there were “circumstances in&nbsp;her person” which disgusted him. Did that mean her pubic hair? Was he&nbsp;just reacting hysterically to her general&nbsp;nakedness? Was she eating chips in bed? Either way, Ruskin launched a million PhDs on Victorian sexuality, and now Emma Thompson has written&nbsp;an unexpectedly entertaining movie about this marital disaster and Gray’s subsequent romance with the painter John Everett&nbsp;Millais. It’s a little hammy and&nbsp;soapy, with an occasional Pythonesque&nbsp;sense of its own importance but this film, directed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Richard Laxton, is performed with gusto. As&nbsp;Effie herself, Dakota Fanning carries&nbsp;off&nbsp;the role competently, though with the American actor’s habit of playing British accents too slowly. Greg Wise does a good&nbsp;villainous turn as the obnoxious Ruskin: an obtuse and petulant Casaubon creep with a possible abuser’s taste for&nbsp;the green and unripe flesh. Julie Walters steals every scene&nbsp;as Ruskin’s overbearing mother, who turns Effie’s early married life into a grisly Rebecca nightmare.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanning">Continue reading...</a>Effie GrayDakota FanningEmma ThompsonDramaCultureFilmBooksArt and designThu, 09 Oct 2014 22:15:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-review-dakota-fanningPhotograph: Allstar/METRODOME DISTRIBUTION/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarMarital disaster … Dakota Fanning in Effie Gray. Photograph: AllstarPhotograph: Allstar/METRODOME DISTRIBUTION/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarMarital disaster … Dakota Fanning in Effie Gray. Photograph: AllstarPeter Bradshaw2014-10-09T22:15:13ZWhy Effie Gray is the one film you should watch this week - videohttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-emma-thompson-john-ruskin-watch-movie
Peter Bradshaw explains why Emma Thompson's movie about the unconsummated marriage between John Ruskin (Greg Wise) and his Scottish bride (Dakota Fanning) is the movie to make a date with this weekend – despite its ham and soap<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/13/emma-thompson-different-patch-life-50s">• Emma Thompson on making Effie Gray</a><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/07/john-ruskin-emma-thompson-mike-leigh-film-art">• The real Ruskin? </a><br /><br />Effie Gray is released in UK cinemas on 10 October <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-emma-thompson-john-ruskin-watch-movie">Continue reading...</a>Effie GrayFilmCultureDakota FanningThu, 09 Oct 2014 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/oct/09/effie-gray-emma-thompson-john-ruskin-watch-movieJoel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesBritish actress Emma Thompson, who plays Lady Eastlake, and U.S actress Dakota Fanning, right, who plays Euphemia 'Effie' Gray, during a break from filming a scene on the set of the film 'Effie' at West Wycombe Park, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. The film looks at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray, played by Dakota Fanning. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan) ... 10-11-2011 ... Photo by: Joel Ryan/AP/Press Association Images.URN:12422870 Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesGuardian Staff2014-10-09T06:00:00ZNight Moves review – taut intrigue and existential angsthttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/night-moves-review-taut-intrigue-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-dakota-fanning
Kelly Reichardt's latest mixes eco-warrior action and Dostoevskian guilt to potent effect<p>Having earned a reputation as a master of low-key, observational &quot;anti-drama&quot; (the plot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QXEK64ba08" title=""><em>Wendy and Lucy</em></a> can be encapsulated in a single sentence), Kelly Reichardt kicks things up a gear with this initially gripping thriller about three mismatched eco-warriors planning to blow up a hydroelectric dam. Jesse Eisenberg (looking more like the Gen X sibling of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sparksofficial" title="">Ron and Russell Mael</a> from Sparks every day) and Dakota Fanning are the environmentalist and college dropout who team up with Peter Sarsgaard's ex-marine to deliver a payload of explosives via the eponymous boat.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/night-moves-review-taut-intrigue-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-dakota-fanning">Continue reading...</a>Night MovesThrillerFilmJesse EisenbergDakota FanningAction and adventureCultureSat, 30 Aug 2014 23:05:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/night-moves-review-taut-intrigue-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-dakota-fanningPRJesse Eisenberg in Night Moves: 'nail-biting levels of suspense'.Mark Kermode2014-08-30T23:05:12ZNight Moves review – Jesse Eisenberg makes a convincingly numb dam-busterhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/28/night-moves-review-jesse-eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning star as green activists planning to blow up a dam in this tense 70s style noir thriller that really behaves like an angst-ridden indie<p>The title of Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves has a ghostly echo of Arthur Penn's 1975 noir of the same name, which featured Gene Hackman as the private detective hunting a missing woman, and getting into a watery nightmare. There are traces of noir here, too, but distinctively mixed with&nbsp;something calmer, blanker, less obviously flavoured with genre. This&nbsp;Night Moves is like a suspense movie held in suspense: a thriller that&nbsp;behaves as if it is a gentle, indie-arthouse film concerned only with&nbsp;evoking the static beauty of nature. There can't be many screen dramas in&nbsp;which a climactic fight between characters is accompanied with quiet,&nbsp;plangent pan-pipe music on&nbsp;the&nbsp;soundtrack, the sort that one generally hears in the reception at a&nbsp;hotel spa. And&nbsp;yet the film is gripping and disturbing.</p><p>Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and&nbsp;Peter Sarsgaard play a trio of environmental activists: Josh, Dena and Harmon, respectively. Josh lives and works at a&nbsp;co-operative farm; Dena&nbsp;is his close friend – there may be&nbsp;a romantic entanglement between them – and Harmon is a slightly freaky ex-Marine of Josh's acquaintance, with&nbsp;long hair, radical views and some rather picturesque vocab: he says &quot;split&quot; instead of &quot;leave&quot;. His character is another way in which this feels interestingly like a revival of American indie cinema of the 70s.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/28/night-moves-review-jesse-eisenberg">Continue reading...</a>Night MovesFilmJesse EisenbergDakota FanningAction and adventureThrillerEnvironmentActivismWorld newsProtestCultureThu, 28 Aug 2014 14:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/28/night-moves-review-jesse-eisenbergPRNaturally things don’t go to plan … Jesse Eisenberg in Night Moves.PRNaturally things don't go to plan … Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg in Night Moves.PRNaturally things don’t go to plan … Jesse Eisenberg in Night Moves.PRNaturally things don't go to plan … Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg in Night Moves.Peter Bradshaw2014-08-28T14:30:00ZNight Moves: watch an exclusive clip from Kelly Reichardt's eco-thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg – videohttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/aug/26/night-moves-clip-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-video
Night Moves, the new film from Old Joy and Meek's Cutoff director Kelly Reichardt, stars Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning as a pair of eco-activists planning to attack a dam. In this clip the pair make a getaway, but run into a police roadblock. Night Moves is released in the UK on Friday <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/aug/26/night-moves-clip-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-video">Continue reading...</a>Night MovesJesse EisenbergDakota FanningCultureFilmThrillerTue, 26 Aug 2014 13:32:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/aug/26/night-moves-clip-kelly-reichardt-jesse-eisenberg-videoSoda PicturesJesse Eisenberg in Night Moves Photograph: Soda PicturesGuardian Staff2014-08-26T13:32:00ZDakota Fanning: ‘I don’t remember people not knowing who I am’http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/22/dakota-fanning-night-moves-twilight
<p>Despite 55 film credits to her name, the star of Kelly Reichardt’s eco-thriller Night Moves is hard at work at university, longing for Bette Davis’s time when the movies held more mystery</p><p>“I was very mature and calm and rational,” <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/dakota-fanning">Dakota Fanning</a> says of her six-year-old self. “My mum was calling me from across the playground, so I jumped from the climbing frame and ran over.” Dakota had already starred in ER, CSI, Malcolm In The Middle and Ally McBeal. Now her agent was on the line and she had a choice to make: a lead role in a TV series (the short-lived Fighting Fitzgeralds), or to play Sean Penn’s daughter in a film called <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/91377/i.am.sam">I Am Sam</a>. </p><p>She took Penn’s offer and beat Haley Joel Osment and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/daniel-radcliffe">Daniel Radcliffe</a> to best young actor at the Critics Choice awards that winter. Orlando Bloom held her in the air so she could reach the microphone. She spoke with total composure for more than two minutes. “I want to thank God for all of the things he has given me,” she said, her legs dangling, “and for the best agents in the world.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/22/dakota-fanning-night-moves-twilight">Continue reading...</a>Dakota FanningFilmCultureFri, 22 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/22/dakota-fanning-night-moves-twilightPhotograph: Moviestore/REX/Moviestore/REXDakota Fanning with Tim Robbins and Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds Photograph: Moviestore/REXPhotograph: Moviestore/REX/Moviestore/REXDakota Fanning with Tim Robbins and Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds Photograph: Moviestore/REXPhotograph: eyevineDakota Fanning. Photograph: Yves Salmon/eyevinePhotograph: eyevineDakota Fanning. Photograph: Yves Salmon/eyevineTom Seymour2014-08-22T12:00:00ZKelly Reichardt: ‘My films are just glimpses of people passing through’http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/21/-sp-kelly-reichardt-my-films-are-just-glimpses-of-people-passing-through
<p>The Night Moves director supplements her income by teaching, but still couch-hops and doesn’t own anything. But her films are nudging their way towards the mainstream</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/09/kelly-reichardt-meeks-cutoff">Kelly Reichardt</a> makes small, hushed films about the invisible flotsam of the American west. Her natural subjects are the drifters and the outcasts, the barely getting by. Her natural habitat is the lonesome campfire and the railroad track. She says she lives like a bum, she makes hardly any money. Her very presence at the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/venicefilmfestival">Venice film festival</a>, I’m guessing, is the result of some ghastly administrative error.</p><p>But here is the paradox. With each passing film, Reichardt finds herself hauled out of the shadows and nudged towards the mainstream. The murmurous, mesmerising <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jan/26/drama1">Old Joy</a> made way for the wrenching <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/mar/06/wendy-and-lucy-film-review">Wendy and Lucy</a>, which stranded pensive <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/michelle-williams">Michelle Williams</a> on the fringes of town. This in turn was overtaken by the acclaimed <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/14/meeks-cutoff-review">Meek’s Cutoff</a>, a western with a difference, marooned in the desert. Reichardt’s pictures creep up on audiences, but they are so potent and so haunting that they prove hard to ignore. They call out to the world, perhaps louder than she’d like.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/21/-sp-kelly-reichardt-my-films-are-just-glimpses-of-people-passing-through">Continue reading...</a>Night MovesFilmCultureJesse EisenbergDakota FanningThu, 21 Aug 2014 14:59:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/21/-sp-kelly-reichardt-my-films-are-just-glimpses-of-people-passing-throughPhotograph: PR/PRNight Moves.Photograph: PR/PRNight Moves.Photograph: PR/PEMichelle Williams in Meek’s Cutoff.Photograph: PR/PEMichelle Williams in Meek’s Cutoff.Photograph: PR/PRDaniel London and Will Oldham in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy.Photograph: PR/PRDaniel London and Will Oldham in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy.Photograph: PR/PRNight Moves director Kelly Reichardt.Photograph: PR/PRNight Moves director Kelly Reichardt.Xan Brooks2014-08-21T14:59:04ZJohn Ruskin's marriage: what really happenedhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell
Ruskin's marriage to Effie, annulled for non-consummation, still provokes speculation. A new book may explain everything<p>The scandal surrounding John Ruskin, his wife Effie, and <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-john-everett-millais-bt-379" title="">John Everett Millais</a> still&nbsp;fascinates a century and a half after the events. What makes it famous is that it wasn't a sex scandal but a non-sex scandal.</p><p>The circumstances in which Effie left&nbsp;her husband for the pre-Raphaelite artist have generated at least half a dozen books as well as an opera, a silent&nbsp;film and assorted plays. One of the plays, <em>The Countess</em>, was at the centre of a just-resolved copyright dispute between its author, Gregory Murphy, and the actor <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/emma-thompson" title="">Emma Thompson</a>. Thompson has written the screenplay for <em>Effie</em>, a big-screen telling of the story&nbsp;starring her husband Greg Wise as&nbsp;Ruskin, Dakota Fanning as Effie and Tom Sturridge as Millais; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/21/emma-thompson-effie-cleared-for-release" title="">the film is scheduled for release</a> in May.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell">Continue reading...</a>BooksCultureHistoryDramaEmma ThompsonThe pre-RaphaelitesDakota FanningMarriageRelationshipsFri, 29 Mar 2013 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownellJoel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesEmma Thompson's film Effie, with Dakota Fanning in the title role as Ruskin's teenage bride, is released in May. Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesJoel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesEmma Thompson's film Effie, with Dakota Fanning in the title role as Ruskin's teenage bride, is released in May. Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP/Press Association ImagesMichael Prodger2013-03-29T16:00:00ZSundance 2013 portraits: ready for my close up – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/29/sundance-2013-portraits-in-pictures
The Sundance film festival wrapped on Sunday, and <a href="http://www.victoriawill.com/">Victoria Will</a> was there throughout photographing the major players at the Fender music lodge. Here's the pick of her portraits <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/29/sundance-2013-portraits-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Sundance film festival 2013FilmSundance film festivalPhotographyArt and designFestivalsCultureJoseph Gordon-LevittEllen PageDaniel RadcliffeAlicia KeysDakota FanningBen WheatleyDramaDocumentaryWorld cinemaRomanceThrillerTue, 29 Jan 2013 14:16:33 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/29/sundance-2013-portraits-in-picturesVictoria Will/Invision/APAmanda Seyfried from the film "Lovelace" at Sundance Film Festival at the Fender Music Lodge Photograph: Victoria Will/Invision/APMee-Lai Stone2013-01-29T14:16:33ZMark Kermode's DVD round-uphttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/27/holy-motors-looper-paranorman-dvd
Holy Motors; Looper; ParaNorman; House at the End of the Street; Now is Good<p>What the hell is <strong>Holy Motors </strong>(2012, Artificial Eye, 18) all about? Leos Carax's first feature film for more than a decade (following the commercial failure of <em>Pola X</em>) is a breathtakingly barking affair involving chimpanzees, aliens, computer graphics, talking limousines, false noses, Kylie Minogue channelling Jean Seberg and Eva Mendes being kidnapped by a familiar troll named Merde. &quot;It's so weird!&quot; breathes an incidental character ecstatically, and he's not kidding.</p><p>At the centre of it all is the mesmerising Denis Lavant, a fiery angel and existential artist who travels from location to location adopting quixotic personas (twisted beggar woman, scarred hitman, dying uncle, angry father) and performing real-life vignettes amid the great circus of screen life. From the earliest chronophotographic images of bodies in motion to virtual sex in mo-cap suits, Carax hurtles helter skelter through an urgent history of cinema, nodding toward Chaplin, Cocteau, Lynch and (most bizarrely) John Lasseter. When Lavant's chauffeur, Edith Scob, dons what looks like the mask from <em>Les yeux sans visage</em>, I thought I might actually faint.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/27/holy-motors-looper-paranorman-dvd">Continue reading...</a>DVD and video reviewsBruce WillisJoseph Gordon-LevittDakota FanningPaddy ConsidineWorld cinemaScience fiction and fantasyAnimationComedyHorrorDramaRomanceFilmCultureSun, 27 Jan 2013 00:06:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/27/holy-motors-looper-paranorman-dvdPR'Bewitching': Eva Mendes and Denis Lavant in Leos Carax’s Holy Motors.PR'Bewitching': Eva Mendes and Denis Lavant in Leos Carax’s Holy Motors.Mark Kermode2013-01-27T00:06:05ZKevin Kline to play Errol Flynn in tale of notorious Hollywood sex scandalhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/24/kevin-kline-errol-flynn-sex-scandal
New biopic of silver screen star will feature Dakota Fanning as 15-year-old girl with whom he had two-year affair<p>It is one of Hollywood's most infamous sex scandals: the story of how the swashbuckling Errol Flynn conducted a two-year affair with a 15-year-old ingenue that lasted until his premature death in 1959. Now <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/dakota-fanning" title="">Dakota Fanning</a> is set to play the young actor seduced by the 50-year-old Flynn in <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/dakota-fanning-errol-flynn-kevin-kline-last-of-robin-hood/" title="">a new movie titled The Last of Robin Hood</a>. Kevin Kline will play the faded star in his final years.</p><p></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/24/kevin-kline-errol-flynn-sex-scandal">Continue reading...</a>DramaRomanceFilmDakota FanningCultureThu, 24 Jan 2013 14:18:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/24/kevin-kline-errol-flynn-sex-scandalRonald Grant ArchiveSwashbuckling … Errol Flynn in 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood. Kevin Kline will play the notorious star in a new biopic. Photograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveRonald Grant ArchiveSwashbuckling … Errol Flynn in 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood. Kevin Kline will play the notorious star in a new biopic. Photograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveBen Child2013-01-24T14:18:38ZThe 100 key films of 2013: Nos 91-100http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/04/100-key-films-2013
The final instalment of our 10-part, alphabetically organised list of 2013's important titles, including new films from Woody Allen, Edgar Wright and Kathryn Bigelow <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/04/100-key-films-2013">Continue reading...</a>Woody AllenElizabeth OlsenDakota FanningSam RockwellHayao MiyazakiKathryn BigelowSimon PeggEdgar WrightChanning TatumBrad PittFilmCultureFri, 04 Jan 2013 08:13:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jan/04/100-key-films-2013Groundswell ProductionsDakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen in Very Good Girls Photograph: Groundswell ProductionsHenry Barnes, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver, Catherine Shoard2013-01-04T08:13:00ZNow Is Good – reviewhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/23/now-good-dakota-fanning-review
<p>The 17-year-old Tessa (Dakota Fanning sporting a reasonable British accent) is a terminally ill Brighton schoolgirl, her leukaemia, diagnosed three years earlier, rapidly metastasising. Her parents are separated, her perky younger brother is insensitive to her situation, and she's stoically drawn up a bucket list of things to do before she dies, among them losing her virginity. It's a conventional film, rather predictable in its handling of the&nbsp;relationship with the boy next door, whose father has recently died, and I could have done without her best&nbsp;friend being pregnant and considering an abortion. But Paddy Considine does well as the father, and it's less sentimental than one might expect, certainly less so than the standard Hollywood product.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/23/now-good-dakota-fanning-review">Continue reading...</a>DramaFilmDakota FanningPaddy ConsidineOlivia WilliamsCultureSat, 22 Sep 2012 23:03:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/23/now-good-dakota-fanning-reviewPRDakota Fanning and Paddy Considine in drama Now Is Good: 'less sentimental than one might expect'.PRDakota Fanning and Paddy Considine in drama Now Is Good: 'less sentimental than one might expect'.Philip French2012-09-22T23:03:08ZMarc Jacobs' Dakota Fanning ad banned for being 'sexually provocative'http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/09/marc-jacobs-dakota-fanning-ad-banned
Watchdog rules advert was irresponsible and likely to cause serious offence after complaints that it sexualised children<p>A provocative ad campaign for Marc Jacobs perfume featuring 17-year-old Dakota Fanning, the US actor who has starred in films including War of the Worlds and Charlotte's Web, has been banned following accusations that it sexualised children.</p><p>The magazine campaign, which featured in the London Evening Standard's ES Magazine and Sunday Times Style magazine, featured Fanning wearing a short skirt and holding a bottle of Marc Jacobs perfume in what the advertising regulator deemed a &quot;sexually provocative&quot; position between her legs.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/09/marc-jacobs-dakota-fanning-ad-banned">Continue reading...</a>Advertising Standards AuthorityAdvertisingMediaUK newsUS newsFilmDakota FanningWed, 09 Nov 2011 00:05:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/09/marc-jacobs-dakota-fanning-ad-bannedPublic DomainMarc Jacobs' Dakota Fanning ad has been banned by the UK ad watchdogPublic DomainOh, Lola! Marc Jacobs ad banned by the ASAMark Sweney2011-11-09T00:05:00ZTop of the dross: being the worst in the world takes skill | Annie Stevenshttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/top-dross-worst-world-dakota-elle-fanning
As Dakota and Elle Fanning consider roles in a film about talent-challenged The Shaggs, let's celebrate the best worsts<p>Reading that the decidedly talented Fanning sisters – Dakota and Elle – <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/elle_dakota_fanning_shaggs.html" title="NY Mag: Elle and Dakota Fanning in talks to co-star in a biopic on the Shaggs">were in talks</a> for a movie about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs" title="Wikipedia">The Shaggs</a> was heartening. The Shaggs – three sisters who, despite not having much in the way of musical ability, formed a band because a palm reader told their superstitious father they would – released one album in 1969, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_the_World" title="Wikipedia">Philosophy of the World</a>. It was quite universally rubbished, but later achieved cult status. The New York Times said that it was &quot;maybe the best worst rock album ever made&quot;; Frank Zappa famously said the Shaggs were &quot;better than the Beatles&quot; and Kurt Cobain quite fancied them too.</p><p>Last week, an unknown 13-year-old American teen, Rebecca Black, was afforded <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/15/rebecca.black.friday/" title="CNN: Rebecca Black's 'Friday' -- the good, bad and ugly of a viral web">similar treatment</a>: her song Friday, produced by the Arc Music Factory became the latest &quot;YouTube sensation&quot;. The song, which was to become the subject of online polls such as &quot;Is this the worst song in the world?&quot;, received millions of hits, and much mockery and meme-making ensued. Yet Rolling Stone <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-rebecca-blacks-much-mocked-viral-hit-friday-is-actually-good-20110315" title="Rolling Stone: Why Rebecca Black's much-mocked viral hit 'Friday' is actually good">declared</a> that there was something about this strangely intoned bubblegum-ish pop that was &quot;uniquely compelling&quot;.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/top-dross-worst-world-dakota-elle-fanning">Continue reading...</a>CultureMusicFilmInternetYouTubeDakota FanningMon, 21 Mar 2011 17:23:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/top-dross-worst-world-dakota-elle-fanningRedfernsDakota and Elle Fanning are in talks to play The Shaggs, whose album was “maybe the best worst rock album ever made”, according to the New York Times. Photograph: RedfernsRedfernsThe Shaggs album was "maybe the best worst rock album ever made", according to the New York Times. Photograph: RedfernsAnnie Stevens2011-03-21T17:23:01ZThe Oscars: Who calls the shots?http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/24/oscars-investigation-power-behind-academy
Woody Allen doesn't get a vote, but Dakota Fanning does. Tom Shone investigates the invitation-only film-industry clique who wield a&nbsp;massive but secret influence<p>There are 6,404 of them, mostly living in the Los Angeles area, with further pockets in northern California, New York City and London. They are, by a small majority, male. Their average age is about 57. Rupert Murdoch is one, as are Pedro Alm&oacute;dovar and Sasha Baron Cohen. George Lucas, Woody Allen and Dwayne &quot;The Rock&quot; Johnson are not. And on 27 February they will announce to an audience of more than 30 million people the results of a secret ballot that will determine the course of careers, cause corporate stock prices to rocket, and induce howls of outrage in office pools and viewing parties around the world.</p><p>&quot;They&quot;, of course, are the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group of entertainment industry professionals responsible for handing out the Oscars every year. The Academy's headquarters are housed in an impassive, mirrored-glass structure on Wilshire Boulevard, suggestive of the fact that Ampas does not like to reveal much about its inner workings. Membership is by invitation only, requiring sponsorship by two existing members and the approval of a board of governors; but once in, you're in for life, a fact that has been used by the organisation's critics to conjure up an image of doddering retirees, too entangled in their oxygen tanks to fill out their ballots. When Henry Fonda and James Garner admitted their wives filled out their ballots for them, there was uproar.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/24/oscars-investigation-power-behind-academy">Continue reading...</a>Oscars 2011OscarsAwards and prizesFilmCultureDakota FanningThu, 24 Feb 2011 21:45:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/24/oscars-investigation-power-behind-academyDanny Moloshok/REUTERSRed carpet treatment ... the 83rd Oscars take shape. Photograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSDanny Moloshok/REUTERSRed carpet treatment ... the 83rd Oscars take shape. Photograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSTom Shone2011-02-24T21:45:00ZDakota Fanning to play Princess Margaret in Girls' Night Outhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/dakota-fanning-princess-margaret
Michael Hoffman will direct US starlet in true story of how Margaret and sister Elizabeth celebrated the end of war<p>Former child star Dakota Fanning is to play Princess Margaret in a new film exploring her teenage years with her sister, the Queen.</p><p>Inspired by real-life events, Girls' Night Out will be filmed later this year, <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118031728?categoryid=4076&amp;cs=1&amp;cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter" title="Variety reports">Variety reports</a>. It concerns a weekend in which the two royals were allowed out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of the second world war alongside the rest of the country in 1945.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/dakota-fanning-princess-margaret">Continue reading...</a>Period and historicalFilmCulturePrincess MargaretDakota FanningThu, 10 Feb 2011 12:11:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/dakota-fanning-princess-margaretAP and Rex FeaturesBy royal appointment … Dakota Fanning and Princess Margaret Photograph: AP and Rex FeaturesAP and Rex FeaturesDakota Fanning and Princess Margaret Photograph: AP and Rex FeaturesBen Child2011-02-10T12:11:15Z